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Aug. 8, 2003 -- Eye patches help kids with lazy eye. But kids hate wearing them. Soon they may have another option. Lazy eye -- amblyopia to doctors -- isn't really an eye problem. It happens when a child's brain ignores input from one eye. The treatment: Cover the good eye with a patch, forcing the

July 28, 2003 -- Depending on your tastes, wearing neckties may be an assault to some folks' vision. According to a new study, wearing them too tightly may harm your own. Researchers say that a too-tight necktie may increase the risk of glaucoma by boosting blood pressure inside the eyes to dangerou

July 24, 2003 -- Patients who had faced the highest risk of LASIK-caused complications -- or were turned down altogether for the popular vision-correction procedure because of their pupil size -- can now have it done safely, thanks to a new type of laser. A new study, published in the July issue of

July 14, 2003 - Baseball players had it right all along: To reduce eye glare, old-fashioned black grease works better than antiglare stickers, according to a new study. It's an issue of seeing a speeding object, like a football or baseball, while facing the full glare of the sun or lights. Sunlight

June 24, 2003 - An airbag may very likely save your life during an automobile accident, and contrary to popular belief, it won't do so at the price of your eyesight. A new study shows the risk of eye injury due to a rapidly deployed airbag is extremely low and wearing glasses won't necessarily incre

June 12, 2003 -- Age-related macular degeneration -- a major cause of blindness -- is much more dangerous in obese people. And the bigger a person's waist, the greater the risk that macular degeneration will lead to vision loss, a new study shows. But there's also some good news in the report by Har

May 28, 2003 -- Even violent video games aren't all bad. A new study shows that playing action video games improves several key visual skills. The games that do this trick require a player to keep track of several changing objects at one time. These games also mean responding to separate tasks happe

May 12, 2003 -- Treatment for lazy eye in children is about to get much easier. A new study shows that wearing an eye patch for only two hours a day works just as well -- and just as fast -- as wearing the patch for six hours. It's been common wisdom that the more a kid with a lazy eye wears a patch

April 24, 2003 -- Age-related macular degeneration may be linked to a pneumonia bug. If so, early antibiotic treatment might prevent some cases of this leading cause of blindness. There's a lot of suspicion that long-lasting infections may cause many cases of heart disease. The same process could be

April 23, 2003 -- A new procedure appears to provide crisper vision and fewer complications than the traditional type of LASIK surgery performed on millions of Americans each year -- without the cutting-edge of a surgeon-held knife. That's because it uses a special type of laser to more accurately p